Coke insisted that no shredder had been purchased and no documents destroyed.
They forged documents, destroyed evidence and developed mobile weapons facilities to keep a step ahead of inspectors.
The testimony could damage Andersen's contention that documents destroyed in the Enron case were largely irrelevant.
People brought their files in paper bags, knapsacks and cardboard boxes, and squinted at the TV screen with a watchful eye to see their documents destroyed.
Rathbun has confessed that, in 1997, he ordered incriminating documents destroyed in the case of Lisa McPherson, the Scientologist who died of an embolism.
By Shoko Wanger March 5, 2009 The Historical Archive of Cologne collapsed suddenly, leaving two people missing and countless irreplaceable documents destroyed.
The judge, Anita Brody of Federal District Court in Philadelphia, rejected claims by Lisa Michelle Lambert that prosecutors and police officers in Lancaster County hid documents, destroyed evidence and lied on the witness stand.
Today, several people who say they were molested by Mr. Geoghan as boys said the documents destroyed their trust and respect for the church.
Judith A. Holtz, a spokeswoman for Ms. Rehnquist, said tonight that many of the documents destroyed in recent weeks were "old case files and correspondence" that would probably be of no interest to the accounting office.
Draft memorandums were among the types of documents destroyed by Andersen; however, at their news conference, the jurors said that their unanimous verdict was based only on the removal of words, not on the subsequent shredding of other materials.
"At this time the MPS have little detail on the circumstances that led to the shredding or the exact documents destroyed".
